Pierre Toussaint Frédéric Mialhe
Pioneered Cuban landscape lithography
The Bordeaux painter Mialhe left France for Cuba in 1838, employed as the landscape painter for the lithographic firm established by François Cosnier and Alexandre Moreau de Jonnès in Havana under the sponsorship of the Royal Patriotic and Economic Society of Cuba. These so-called 'French lithographers', rivals to the Spanish workshop of the Costa brothers, became the foremost lithographers in Cuba. Mialhe's now extremely rare Isla de Cuba pintoresca was published in parts between 1839 and 1842 (37 lithographs were published). Mialhe spent 15 years in Cuba, and was active beyond Havana, travelling into the interior with the naturalist Felipe Poey for subject matter. Plagued by copyists in Havana, he returned to France in 1854 and exhibited Cuban subjects at the Salons in subsequent years.
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Artworks by this artist (28 total)
- Vista genl. de la cuidad y montañas de Baracoa 1855
- Vista de una casa de calderas 1855
- Corrida de toros 1855
- Matanzas 1855
- Fuente de la India en el Paseo de Isabel IIa 1855
- El quitrin 1855
- Trinidad 1855
- Dia de reyes, the holy kings day 1855
- Haban 1855
- Vista de la Habana, parte de Estramuros 1855
- Vista de la iglesia major y de la Ermita del Buen Viaje 1855
- Habana. 1855
- Vista de una vega de tabaco 1855
- Morro y entrada puerto de la Habana 1855
- Plaza de Armas 1855
- Album pintoresco de la isla de Cuba – Title Page 1855
- El casero 1855
- Vista de la Habana 1855
- Vivienda de los pescadores de esponjas 1855
- Alameda de Paula 1855